Mission impossible: honey bees adjust time allocation when facing an unsolvable task

The degree to which miniature-brained insects make individual adjustments in response to changing conditions remains unclear. Honey bees, Apis mellifera , are an important insect model and have been shown to make individual speed–accuracy trade-offs, but it is currently not known whether they can adjust speed–accuracy strategies to solve tasks in dynamic ecological contexts. Further, it is unclear how they may behave when facing unsolvable or...